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Vintage Photographic Portraiture at the Boston Athenaeum
April 25, 2009
Sally Pierce curator, prints & photographs, BA

Sally Pierce discusses the images displayed in the exhibition cases in the Bayard Denry Long Room of the Boston Athenaeum. This collection includes daguerreotypes, cartes de visite, tintypes, and other vintage examples of photographic portraiture.

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Robert Labaree
00:45:11
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Mehmet Ali Sanlikol
00:48:51
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Author: Sally Pierce, Catherina Slautterback
Publisher: Boston Athenaeum Library (1991)
Binding: Hardcover, 191 pages
Author: Georgia Brady Barnhill, Catharina Slautterback, Sally Pierce
Publisher: Boston Athenaeum Library (1997)
Binding: Paperback, 87 pages
Author: Sally Pierce
Publisher: Boston Athenaeum (1988)
Binding: Hardcover, 132 pages
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